Papal Passover to Club 88 ⛪📿✝️ ♣️

Club 88 just welcomed its most prestigous new member with the passing of Pope Francis on April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 making him a member of Club 88 where a succession of notables died at the age of 88 beginning last year but with the passing of a Pope, it trumps all other members that now have a new leader of the postmortem pack.

For the Club 88 backstory originated by the Beth Fan Page, see the blog entries dated 9-3-24, 10-2-24, 11-20-24, 11-21-24, 1-31-25 and 3-1-25.

Met Gala Monday May 5th

As blogged about on April 21, 2025, the annual Met Gala is held the first Monday in May, and it seems to be a foreboding of things to come. 

They did a Vatican themed extravaganza for the Met Gala in 2018, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” with guests like Rihanna, Zendaya, and more took the theme to the next level, ensuring them a golden spot in heaven.

This year, the theme is black fashion style, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" (on view from May 10th to October 26th), with the gala on Monday, May 5th. The event is co-hosted by Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, and of course the Editor is Chief of Vogue magazine Anna Wintour for the 2025 Met Gala, with LeBron James serving as an honorary chair.

Will we have a black Pope elected this time around in conjunction with the black themed Met Gala? Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana [who is black] hopes to reign supreme at the Vatican but we have to wait and watch what happens because he should compaign at the Met Gala on the 5th of May if he wants celebrity support. 

Scholars researching the early Church have cited evidence that some first millennium popes were born in North Africa or were of African descent, though details are scant. The Church's records state that there were potentially three Black popes in Catholic history: Pope Victor I, who headed the church from 189-199, Pope Miltiades (311-314), and Pope Gelasius I, who was pope from 492-496.

We'll see if Wintour's theme can translate to a black Pope and then Oprah Winfrey can glom onto him like she did with Obama, almost pushing Michelle into the Hudson river so Oprah could be the First Lady. I can see Oprah racing to become a Popess in waiting glomming onto that infamy in the history books with the first verified black Pope, with her shooting up Ozempic like there's no tomorrow to fit into her robes and fish hat and post a million photos on IG though those phony photo filters.

Will blackface Howard horn in on Papacy fashion? 

Maybe Howard can combine the Vatican fashion from the 2018 Met Gala with the potential for a black pope elected this time around and it will get the Sterns into the Met Gala on Monday, May 5th. Howard does keep trying any gimmick he can because he has no cash or clout to score a ticket for he and Beth to attend the most famous event of the year even though Beth is a famous rarely vertical Florida couch model.

Beth Posts Photos from 2024 Pretending They're Current

As blogged about for several years, it's common knowledge that phony Beth posts a bunch of photos from old photoshoots and doles them out for years to come to make herself appear busy and popular when she's not. She does this especially now since she is in the process of moving everything from the Hamptons and her old New York apartment to Florida, so she has nothing current to post unless it's just those random cats and rabbits that no one can track and they are shuffled around to various foster homes.

It is unclear whether the O Family ever visited the Sterns this year even though Howard claimed they did, since they visit several times during the year when Beth's nieces and nephews are on a school break. But since Howard has moved permanently to Florida, he is not sitting there with the irritating O Clan. When he still owned his Manhattan apartment, he would hide out there when they were in residence at Flor-a-Lago, the timeshare feline tax shelter and selfie spa. So again, we have zero proof that the O Family visited the Sterns this year due to Howard being in residence.

Then Beth had the nerve to post an old photo of John Stamos from LAST YEAR when he did a promo ad for Buzzfeed online in an article dated July 31, 2024 with photos subsequently uploaded on IG in August 2024.

John was never at Beth's house, he was at the North Shore Animal League (NSAL) filming a promo ad for the 80th anniversary of NSAL. Beth evidently tried to get her rabbit in the promo ad but they were only featuring adoptable dogs with John.

Then Beth posted an outtake from the photoshoot with John Stamos wearing white pants that he snagged and changed into navy ones. Beth has no one at her Florida house since Howard is in residence. He only just moved there as of late 2024 since selling his Manhattan apartments as already blogged about [BFP 1-31-25, 3-11-25, 3-13-25, 3-17-25, 3-26-25 and 3-29-25].

Here's the April 22 & 23, 2025, Exclusive Stern Show Transcribed Excerpts

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